I would like to find TV viewing figures for Formula 1 car racing for
the period 1998-2004.

 
The data should be per race and could be as % of (viewing) population
or in absolute numbers viewing the race (e.g I am not interested in
teasers before the race or the commentary after)

 

FYI, information the Formula 1 races are broadcasted among others in
the following countries:

Argentina : Channel 3 
Australia* : Channel 9 
Austria* : ORF 
Belgium* : Kanaal 2 
Brazil : Globo TV 
Britain* : ITV 
Canada : TSN and RDS 
Chile : Channel 7 and TVN 
Denmark* : DR1 and Supersport 
Germany* : RTL, DF1, ARD and DSF (Satellite) 
Greece: Alpha
Finland : MTV3 and Supersport 
France* : TF1 and Canal + 
Germany* : RTL and DF1 
Ireland* : Network 2 
Iceland
Italy* : Rai Due 
Japan
Luxembourg
Mexico : Televisión Azteca 
Netherlands : RTL4 and Canal + 
New Zealand : Sky Sport 
Norway* : Supersport and NRK
Poland : Canal + 
Portugal* : RTP 1 
Russia : TV-Center 
Slovakia : TV Markiza 
Slovenia : POP TV 
South Africa : SABC1 and M-NET Supersport 
Spain* : TV 3 and ETB 
Sweden* : TV 4 and Supersport 
Switzerland:
United States* : ESPN2 and Speedvision 

I am particularly interested in the countries marked with an asterisks. 

 

I am happy to negotiate a fair price for smaller group of countries or
even individual countries. A full price would necessitate at least 15
countries including at least 7 asterisked ones. Any information on top
of these could be negotiated and compensated reasonably.

Please let me know should you need further clarifications.

Elina

This is a seriously tough questions since FOM doesn't release any
television viewing information. Some of the networks release their own
viewing information periodically, but this typically only happens when
they have record numbers of views either high, or low. I've got access
to a few different F1 sources for News and statistics and wasn't able
to come up with any information that would come even close to getting
you the answer you're looking for. Wish I could help, now that you
bring this up I'd be really interested in seeing those numbers as
well.

forgey